Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Allveelaeva.

View along Allveelaeva, Tallinn, in the Lennusadama direction.

Modern apartment- and business-building with, intheforeground, a large historical cogwheel left as an artistic reminder of the area's shipbuilding legacy in Allveelaeva, Tallinn.

Expanse of checkerboard paving in Allveelaeva, Tallinn.

#Allveelaeva (Allveelaev)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Submarine. Lit. #all-under, #vee-water, #laev-ship. See! #Estonian’s easy :o) another (new) street by the docks. See #Noblessneri.
#Military #Sõjaline
#Maritime #Merendus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Miinisadam, i.e. the port itself, not the road which is unmarked.

View along Miinisadama, Tallinn, from the Tööstuse direction.

Militarized port zone of Miinisadama, Tallinn.

Old and no-longer-used railway line in Miinisadama, Tallinn.

#Miinisadama (Miinisadam)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Not mini-harbor but Mine Harbor, built in the very early 1900s as ‘Peter the Great Harbor’ to service ships involved with mines. Group of five ports/harbors in Kalamaja. See #Noblessneri.
#Military #Sõjaline
#Maritime #Merendus

#Noblessneri (Noblessner)
Port named after #Noblessner, the name of the company created when #AlfredNobel’s nephew Emanuel, director of #Branobel (see #Petrooleumi), and a torpedo manufacturer by the name of #Lessner merged to build submarines for
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
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#Miinisadama (Miinisadam)
Not mini-harbor but Mine Harbor, built in the very early 1900s as Peter the Great Harbor to service ships involved with mines. Group of five ports/harbors in #Kalamaja. See #Noblessneri.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#Military #Sõjaline
#Maritime #Merendus

#Allveelaeva (Allveelaev)
Submarine. Lit. all-under, vee-water, laev-ship. See! #Estonian’s easy :o) Another street by the docks. See #Noblessneri.
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Maritime #Merendus